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rod noun

  /ɹɑd/ , /ɹɒd/
  • An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+1⁄2 yards.
 baculum
pertica, tālea
  • A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
 virga
fishing rod
arundō, harundō
spare the rod and spoil the child
quī bene amat, bene castīgat
divining rod
virgula divina, virgula divinatoria
lightning rod
fulmen
rod cell
bacillum
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